Top US scientist leaving for Asia

Yep, top US scientists are going to Asian shores where cutting-edge reality-based thinking is appreciated. Another thanks-for-nothing to the faith-based anti-science party that is driving America's top scientist from our shores and America's reputation for scientific innovation and discovery into the ground. I wonder how many others have left or are planning to leave?

"Their decision to relocate to Singapore -- which they chose over leading U.S. cancer research centers at New York's Memorial Sloan-Kettering and California's Stanford University -- is a coup for Singapore, where the government is spending billions of dollars to develop its biomedical industry.

"They are a big catch. They are prominent researchers, very successful in the U.S.," said Alan Colman, the British scientist whose team cloned Dolly, the world's most famous sheep.
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"The amount of money going toward research is going down. It doesn't have a high priority (in the United States). In Singapore it does," said Copeland, adding that they would like to exploit some of their Singapore-funded research commercially.

Copeland and Jenkins said they had been won over by Singapore's scientific freedom, deep pockets and interest in commercial applications, at a time when the U.S. government's National Cancer Institute in Maryland -- where they worked for 20 years -- began a clamp down on consulting work by its scientists."

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